I was on the writing team of this year’s hunt, which was based on the movie “Inside Out.” One of our goals was to create an easy first round to allow small teams to have a full hunt experience. Our first round consisted of 34 puzzles related to five basic emotions: joy, sadness, disgust, fear, and anger. Each emotion had its own meta puzzle. And the round had a meta-meta puzzle and a runaround. As I tend to write easy puzzles, I contributed three puzzles to this emotions round. The puzzles had references to corresponding emotions that were not needed for the solve path. They were inserted there for flavor.

A Learning Path (jointly with Xavid) is a Nikoli-type logic puzzle that was targeted for new hunters. It contained self-referencing hints and solving techniques. It was in both disgust and fear.

Word Search is a word search with a twist. The words are related to fear and sadness.